It’s post-Civil War America and Confederate soldier (Anson Mount) seeks revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to 'Hell on Wheels,' a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town. The construction of the first transcontinental railroad exposes greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. All five seasons. 17 DVDs, 40 hrs.